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Detroit -- It was a festive day in Calihan Hall as the Titans honored their two seniors – Lauren Allen (Rochester Hills, MI/Rochester) and Jalesa Jones (Detroit, MI/Pershing) – prior to the game and then UDM gave them the best gift they could as Detroit held off Youngstown State, 67-64, on Saturday.

The win keeps the Titans in a second-place tie with Wright State as UDM improved to 16-12, 12-4 in the Horizon League. Detroit does own the tiebreaker over the Raiders at the moment. Youngstown State dropped to 10-18, 4-13 in the conference.

Sophomore Senee Shearer (Detroit, MI/Pershing) had 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting, including setting a new career high with six 3-pointers. The 20-point contest was also her seventh of the year, while Jones ended with 14 points, seven assists and four rebounds.

Freshman Shareta Brown (Pontiac, MI/Grand Blanc) was a force inside posting her 11th double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds. She also played tough down low helping to limit YSU's Brandi Brown – the HL Preseason Player of the Year – to just two points on 0-of-8 shooting.

The Titans were ahead by 11, 61-50, with 8:20 left when the Penguins started to stage a comeback by going on a 10-2 run over the next seven minutes. They got within three when Shearer connected on her career-best sixth trifecta to push the lead to six, 66-60, with 1:34 remaining. Jones added a free throw to give UDM a seven-point advantage, but two free throws followed by a Penguins basket made it just a 67-64 contest with 46 seconds left.

YSU actually went to the line looking to make it a three-point play, but missed the free throw and the Titans started their possession with Brown corralling the board. After Detroit turned it over, the Penguins had a chance to tie the game, but their last second 3-pointer bounced off the rim as the red, white and blue earned the victory.

The Titans shot nearly 50% in the game, ending at 48.1% on 25-of-52 from the field. They also won the battle of the boards, 37-32.

Junior Yar Shayok (Ottawa, ON/Hillcrest) tallied eight points and three rebounds, while sophomore Megan Hatter (Howell, MI/Howell) pulled down a career-high nine boards.

Detroit held Youngstown State to 34.5% from the field and Kenya Middlebrooks to just nine points. Back in the January match-up, Middlebrooks had 30 on eight 3-pointers in the game.

The Titans saw the Penguins net the first points of the game, but then took control after that with a 21-6 run to jump out in front, 21-8, eight minutes into the contest. Shearer had a pair of treys in that spurt, while Jones had six points of her own.

UDM ran its lead to as many as 16, 31-15, but saw the Penguins end the half on a 15-4 run.

Detroit pushed its lead back to double digits again at 43-33, but YSU would come back to get within two, 43-41 at the 15:29 mark, thanks to an 8-0 charge.

The red, white and blue never let the lead slip away and extended its advantage back to double digits. Detroit was up, 50-47, when it went on an 11-3 run to take a 61-50 lead with 8:20 remaining. Brown started it with an offensive rebound and a put back and that was followed with a triple from Shearer. Both teams traded free throws before Brown hit two from the line to make it a 58-48 game. After a YSU basket, Brown got inside again and finished with a foul, converting the three-point play for the Titan 11-point lead.

Detroit – which has already secured a home playoff game – will be back in action next week as the Titans visit the Hoosier State to battle Butler on Thursday and Valparaiso on Saturday to close out the regular season.

UDM still controls its own destiny for a second seed in the upcoming Horizon League Championships, but is guaranteed at least a top-four seed with that quarterfinals playoff game to be held on Wednesday, Mar. 7, at 7:00 p.m.

Game Notes:
Detroit leads the all-time series with Youngstown State, 17-13, and is 12-3 at home in the series…With Shearer's six 3-pointers, she now has 63 on the year and moved past Lindsey Pasquinzo (2006) for fifth place on the all-time single-season list…The Titans are now 7-0 on the year when Shearer scores 20 or more…The Titans outscored YSU, 30-12, in the paint and hold an 838-514 advantage opponents in the paint on the year…Jones pushed her all-time assist record to 494 with seven more in the game…Former Detroit assist record holder and Titan Hall-Of-Famer Mary Lillie Cicerone was in attendance and was a guest on HLN at the half.